Some of us don’t have many friends, or any friends that live nearby. Sometimes our families annoy us to no end, and we just don’t want to be near them. Some of us also live in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no money to spend on hobbies and such.

So when you’re limited, and the only person you want to talk to/spend time with is busy with family, friends, school, or work… what do you do?? How do you keep from feeling depressed and from incessantly texting your love? How do you maintain your independence in the relationship?

You can learn something. Scour through the internet and learn more about any topic that interests you. You’ll be surprised about how much time you’ll consume while doing so.

Keep up on your blog, or start a new one. It’ll take me a few hours to successfully track down a theme I like, and edit it to fit my blog. I try to keep up on 5 different blogs, and keeping them up to date is very time consuming.

Read. There was a time where I virtually had none of my boyfriend’s time because he was trying to fix the relationships he had with his family. So I ended up rereading the entire Harry Potter series. 

If s/he’s coming to visit you soon. Look up affordable events in your area during their visit that you think you two would enjoy attending together. Make an itinerary of things you’d like to do. Note: You don’t have to do everything on the list, so don’t discourage yourself if you don’t get to everything.

Download a free photo editing software like Paint.Net and mess around with it, let your artistic side run wild. There’s also free trials of photoshop, and paint shop pro that you can try. I’ve used programs such as these to make up a lot of pictures in my ‘lovey art’ collection seen here.

Take a walk. Anywhere. Whether you live in the city, suburbia, or in rural locations, walking around can help you clear your mind, and relax. Along with walking, actively try to live a healthier life. Eat better, exercise, get into shape. Take an hour out of your time apart and do some yoga, or something. You’ll look and feel great.

Most of all. Find yourself. My time (not only physically) apart from my boyfriend helped me realize who I am and what I want out of life. I ended up taking up crochet again, and with that I discovered a whole new passion, well an old passion revisited. And now, I’m trying to pursue a crafting career.  

I am a person outside of my relationship, my boyfriend doesn’t define who I am, but he sure as hell helps me grow. Try your best to be happy even when you can’t talk to your lover at that time. Don’t let the relationship run your life. Keep busy. Always.

I’ve been debating whether or not to make a post on this subject, but I think I’ll go ahead and do it…

Before I begin, I want to say that I am in no way saying that my underage followers engage in sexual activity. You all probably will anyway, but I’m not openly advising it. And if you’re underage and your significant other is much older then you, then I strongly advise the two of you to stay away from sex altogether. I don’t want anyone getting into trouble.

Now with that said, we can go on…

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From what I gathered, it’s a risky feature. By this I mean, you have to be very flexible with the departure and landing times, because you don’t know what airline you’re flying with, or what your departure times are. You virtually know nothing about the ticket until it’s purchased. If you’re okay with that, then I believe it’s a great feature to use. I haven’t really heard many bad things about it apart from the people who seemed to over look the fine print. 

The only thing I seem to not understand, is the big IF they find an airline that accepts ‘your’ price. What I get from that is that there’s a chance the price you negotiated is rejected.

Yahoo Answers:

here’s what happens: you name your price. They don’t tell you til you finalize. if its not accepted nothing. if it is accepted you have to pay for it. You can’t chose when your flight is, or what airline. you can’t chose ANYTHING or make any changes. So you have to be willing to be flexible. Anytime between 6am and 10pm is when the flights are. Those are the only catches.

Sites that you may find helpful if contemplating using the priceline name your own price feature:

GeekSugar

Priceline for Dummies

Budget Travel

And for Travel in General check out: Frugal Travel Guy, for tips and tricks on getting what you want and need from your trip cheaply.

I’m not 100% this works, I’m still weary on it, but Devin and I are going to try it anyway.

We negotiated $100 on Pricleline, and they gave us a final price of $152.80.

Now we don’t have the ticket yet, we’re waiting for the money I sent him via paypal to clear in his bank account, but we’re going to try for this price to see if it works. It sounds too good to be true, so I’m naturally skeptical :/

If anyone has had experience with insanely low priced tickets on Priceline, feel free to tell me about it. 

I’ll let you guys know what happens.

Oh and if you want to keep tabs on Devin’s and my relationship, you can follow our joint blog at this-love-will-carry

pairapp:

We’re on Instagram and we need your helping hands, literally!

Our Pair Instagram account, ‘pairapp,’ wants to share your pictures of hand hearts. This could mean that your hand makes half of the heart and your partner completes the other half with their hand, or the same person uses both their hands (with someone else taking the picture obviously!).

We will be featuring our favorite submissions on our Instagram account at ‘pairapp,’ on our Hand Hearts Pinterest board, as well as our Tumblr blog! We’ll give you the recognition you deserve of course.

So start thinking of your ideas and get to snapping! We’re going to be featuring a new photo once a day, so don’t get discouraged if we don’t share yours immediately :) Follow one of the easy steps below on how to submit your picture to us!

• Tweet your picture with the hashtag #handhearts – feel free to include @Pair in the tweet!
• Post your pic to Instagram with the hashtag #handhearts – you can include @pairapp in the Instagram post!
•  Leave a comment on our Facebook wall with a link to your picture if you uploaded your image to a public photo sharing site like Flickr, PhotoBucket, Tumblr, or Facebook - if your picture settings on the photo are public.

We can’t wait to see your #handhearts!! 

- Team Pair 

tornapartkat said: Anonymous said:

The only way you’re going to be able to talk on the phone internationally for free, without an iphone, is to use skype calling, or another webcam/voice chat client online. There isn’t a legal free way to call nationally, so I doubt you’re going to get around it on an international level.

ldrawesomesauce:

Communication

• communication communication communication.
• You need to talk about everything, and i mean everything.
• If something is bothering you, you cannot expect them to know, because of the distance. So you need to be able to talk to them. Tell them you are upset. With the distance, you cannot behave like you would in a local relationship, you cannot be upset and expect them to know. Sometimes it is obvious, but even then, it is good habit to be straight forward: “I am a little upset right now. X, Y, and Z happened and I am not happy with it”.
• You do not need to tell them what you are doing every minute of everyday. But its important to talk about big events. Let them know when youre going somewhere (like out of the state/far away from home). Let them know if youre going to be unable to talk to them for a while/couple hours, so they are not worried when you do not text back at the usual time frame.
• Talk about money. Talk about how youre going to visit/afford visiting. Talk about who is visiting who, and when. Talk about the future so you know when (about when) the next visit will happen. Money is extra important in an LDR. You both need to be able to talk about it, negotiate, and save.
• Talk about HOW you will communicate, and how often, so one party isnt upset if you arent communicating as much as previously discussed. This bring me to another point I will mention a bit later.

Trust

• Trust your partner 100%, even if its hard.
• Do not suspect they are doing something, do not jump to conclusion.
• Do not “make them jealous” on purpose. That is stupid and childish.
• If you are feeling doubt. Remember that you love them. Remind yourself the distance is probably just playing with you.
• Have a rule that they are: innocent until proven guilty. It is not fair to condemn them for something that they probably haven’t even done unless they have proven it.
• TRUSSTTT for the love of god trust. It is possible to get over trust issues. It requires alot of work, but you need to.

Set Date Nights

• Talk about when you will have dates. Even with the distance you can have dates!
• Pick ONE day a week that no matter what, the two of you can guarantee you’ll be in communication with each other. So if something comes up during the week, you will know that you will talk at least that one day. If for some reason you cannot talk on date day… RESCHEDULE. 
• Dates, in my opinion, should be webcamming! But they can be phone calls, or texts, or emails, however works best for you guys to communicate.

Parents

• Don’t keep them from your parents. If you love them, why hide them?
• If you keep your relationship secret, are you ashamed? Don’t be ashamed unless you don’t love them.
• If you keep it from your parents, when they find out, they will be pissed. And if you are underage, there goes any chance of being able to visit.

Plans for the future

• Talk about the future, Who is going to move where? How will you end the distance? You don’t need to end the distance right away, but If you plan on being together forever, it needs to end eventually. And this needs to be discussed early on. If neither of you plan on moving away, and you never talked about it, you both will be severely disappointed.
• Don’t change your dreams for your SO. Or you will resent them. If its always been your dream to go to college, don’t give up college to live with them. If they love you, they will wait until you’ve finished. If your dream is to go to a certain school, GO THERE, don’t trade that for a school closer, you know you will be upset with not doing what you wanted. If you end up resenting them, it will come up in a fight, and that will be a scar that wont ever heal. 
• BE HONEST ABOUT EVERYTHING. If you don’t think you could ever leave your family, tell them that. If you don’t want to travel, tell them, if you want to wait longer before you move tell them. Everything needs to be out in the open.
• Ending the distance is HUGE, especially as the miles get farther. There’s no room to mess this up. Be honest, communicate, talk talk talk, and plan your future.

Other Notes

• Having a countdown to the next visit is important. It helps ease the distance
• Give them little gifts to remind them of you.
• Talk about how you feel. With the distance, that helps. Plus a text that puts a smile on your face is a lovely feeling.
• do stuff together, even with the distance, watch tv shows/movies, play games online/on smart phones. anything!
• don’t hide your relationship from anyone, including friends. If your friends don’t support you, get better friends. haha.

Ways to communicate:

• If you have smart phones use:

 Whatsapp, Pair or iMessage (iMessage is automatic between two iPhones that have iOS 5.0 or higher and does not count as a text on your bill, therefore is free, you can use it on iPod Touches and iPads as well!)

• If you don’t have smart phones use:

Regular texts, unless you’re not in the same country. Use AIM/MSN/Yahoo messenger/etc. Email. Tumblr. Facebook. Etc.

• Webcam:

Use Skype or FaceTime, oovoo, facebook has webcaming now, Google + has hangouts, etc.

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missjoonyo:

Well then, you need to follow my new blog :)!!!

It’s a support and awareness group for couples who have met online :). Reblog this! I’ve only got one follower so far haha, can’t wait to get this blog out into the world!

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